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Electronic Arts launches 'FC 24' soccer game in fresh start after FIFA split Electronic Arts on Friday launched its first soccer game without the FIFA tag, betting its "FC 24" title will maintain the momentum in its best-selling franchise and provide a bulwark against an industry slowdown. A near three-decade partnership between EA and FIFA ended last year over what media reports said were demands that the videogame maker double its yearly payments of $150 million to the governing body of world soccer. That has left "FC 24" without the visibility and marketing heft the FIFA brand enjoyed. The game's success is crucial to EA as some analysts estimate the franchise accounts for a major chunk of the company's sales and its $32 billion market value. "The end of such a high-profile partnership ... creates an uncertain future for the publisher," said Joost Van Dreunen, a lecturer at NYU's Stern School of Business, in his newsletter. "B...

Elon Musk's X Corp in another legal fight over unpaid rent, this time as plaintiff Elon Musk's X Corp, facing its own legal claims over unpaid rent, has sued a financial services company to recoup more than $713,500 in allegedly past due rent and other fees stemming from a sublease agreement for San Francisco office space. X, formerly known as Twitter, sued Atlas Exploration in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday in a complaint alleging breach of contract. Atlas, formerly Point Up Inc, markets itself as "an invite-only charge card" that gives members access to exclusive dining and travel. Atlas and X entered a sublease agreement for space at 650 California Street in San Francisco's financial district in April 2021, the lawsuit said. The complaint said Atlas sought last year to terminate the sublease early. X said Atlas owes it more than $340,263 for September to November rent from last year. X also accused Atlas of failing to pay any of its early-terminatio...

Elon Musk’s X has paid $20m to creators Formerly known as Twitter, X, has paid nearly $20 million to creators according to a post from X CEO Linda Yaccarino. Z began paying creators in July for a share of the ad revenue they earned from ads served in replies from to posts. Eligible creators had to have subscribed to X Premium and have more than 500 followers with more than 5 million tweet impressions for the last three months. The first payments accumulated to $5 million, Elon Musk said, from February onwards. Creators are also now incentivized to get users to reply to their tweets, as more are driven to subscribe to premium and win a share of the ad revenue from the company.

Apple iOS iPhone 12 update to fix radiation levels approved by French regulators Apple released a software update for iPhone 12 users in France to fix high radiation levels, which has been approved by French regulators. The company had been threatened with sales suspension if they didn't fix the issue earlier this month. France halted iPhone 12 sales until Apple fixed the devices and bought the electromagnetic radiation compliance with European standards. The increased emitted electromagnetic radiation observed by regulators appears to have been the result of successive software updates issued by Apple, and was not present when the ‌‌iPhone‌‌ 12 was launched in 2020. The ANFR had ordered Apple to "remove the ‌‌‌iPhone‌‌ 12‌ from the French market from September 12 due to the model exceeding the limit" for electromagnetic absorption by the body. Ministers later said that though the the radiation level was above the accepted standard, it was not dangerous and people were ...

Apple adds flashlight to Dynamic Island in iOS 17.1 update In a preview of the first beta of iOS 17.1 to developers, Apple has introduced multiple updates including the addition of a flashlight to the Dynamic Island. iPhone 15 Pro models already have the new feature. With this update, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 will get the addition to its Dynamic Island. Apple added the flashlight to the Dynamic Island for all devices in iOS 17.1! 🔦 This was previously only available on the 15 Pro’s pic.twitter.com/rRLwWTl5sS — Brandon Butch (@BrandonButch) September 27, 2023 The indicator is very useful when a user forgets to switch off the flashlight or turns it on accidentally. With iOS 17.1, every iPhone with Dynamic Island will show the flashlight indicator when appropriate. Read more Meta unveils AI assistant, Facebook-streaming glasses In addition to the flashlight indicator, users can now favourite songs and albums in Apple Music, and the app will generate playlists with those selected son...

ChatGPT users can now browse internet, OpenAI says ChatGPT users will now be able to surf the web, Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Wednesday, expanding the data the viral chatbot can access beyond its earlier September 2021 cutoff. The artificial intelligence startup said its latest browsing feature would allow websites to control how ChatGPT can interact with them. "Browsing is available to Plus and Enterprise users today, and we'll expand to all users soon. To enable, choose Browse with Bing in the selector under GPT-4," OpenAI said in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The startup also announced a major update earlier this week that would enable ChatGPT to have voice conversations with users and interact with them using images, moving it closer to popular AI assistants like Apple's Siri. OpenAI had earlier tested a feature that allowed users to access the latest information through the Bing search engine within its premium ChatGPT Plus...

macOS Sonoma is now available as free software update Apple has finally made its macOS Sonoma available as a free software update. With the new update, Mac now has an interesting set of features to make it more fun to use. These exciting features in the update include high-resolution screensavers, an updated login screen, interactive widgets, video conferencing improvements, Safari profiles for work and personal use, web apps in the Dock, predictive text, and a Game Mode for better gaming performance and lower latency with AirPods and wireless controllers. Read More Google celebrates 25-year journey from dorm to internet dominance To download and install the new update, go to System Settings > General > Software Update. The new update supports MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini models from 2018 and newer, iMac and Mac Pro devices from 2019 and later, the Mac Studio from 2022 onward and the 2017 iMac Pro.

How to get the best out of Canva ChatGPT plugin OpenAI has released a Canva plugin for ChatGPT users that is available for download and can create any visuals like logos, banners and more, using prompts. Previously, users were still taking help from ChatGPT to create art on Canva, but the process was more complicated. The new plugin will, however, make the process swift and easy with just a few clicks. To install the plugin, you will need to open the AI chatbot in your browser and scroll down to the Plugin Store, to locate and install the Canva plugin. Once installed, you will be able to describe the exact art or visual you need in the prompt section and get powerful graphics. Here's how you can use this plugin to achieve various graphics-related and social media tasks: Unleash social media graphics Using prompts, ChatGPT will be able to produce stunning attractive graphics that can compel your audience to engage with posts and get your message across. Instead of wasting hours on...

Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation Elon Musk's X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections, a research organisation said on Wednesday, throwing fresh concern about false claims spreading just before major US and Australian votes. After introducing a feature in 2022 for users to report a post they considered misleading about politics, X in the past week removed the "politics" category from its drop-down menu in every jurisdiction but the European Union, said the researcher Reset.Tech Australia. Users could still report posts to X globally for a host of other complaints such as promoting violence or hate speech, the researcher added. X was not immediately available for comment. Removing a way for people to report suspected political misinformation may limit intervention at a time when social media platforms are under pressure to curtail falsehoods about electoral integrity, which hav...

Spotify intends to not ban AI-generated music Spotify owner, Daniel Ek, in a recent interview with BBC News said, that the company will not ban content created using AI. Earlier this year, Spotify removed a song featuring AI-cloned voices of the performers Drake and The Weeknd. According to Ek there were valid uses of the tech in making music - but AI should not be used to impersonate human artists without their consent. The debate on AI, he believes, will continue for "many, many years". He elaborated his stance and said that there were three "buckets" in AI use, tools to improve music, tools to imitate artists and tools that were inspired from artists but did not impersonate them. He believes tools to improve music were acceptable but tools to imitate artists were not. Read: YouTube to shut down Premium Lite subscription plan "It is going to be tricky," he said talking about challenges facing the music industry. Artists are increasingly becoming threat...

Spotify tests voice translation feature for podcasts Spotify Technology is testing an AI-powered feature that will translate podcasts from the likes of Dax Shepard and Lex Fridman to other languages, the audio-streaming company said on Monday. The feature marks the latest attempt by the Swedish company to capitalize on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that has taken the world by storm after the rise of ChatGPT, to tap new users and boost revenue. The translated versions, powered by Microsoft-backed OpenAI's newly released voice generation technology, would mimic the original speaker's style and will be more natural than traditional dubbing, Spotify said. The company had also worked with other podcasters including Monica Padman, Bill Simmons and Steven Bartlett for the feature. The voice translations would be available in languages including Spanish, French and German for a select number of catalog episodes and future episode releases, said Spotify, which cou...

OpenAI CEO says possible to get regulation wrong, but should not fear it The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Monday that it was possible to get regulation wrong but it is important and should not be feared, amid global concerns about rapid advances in artificial intelligence, or AI. Many countries are planning AI regulation, and Britain is hosting a global AI safety summit in November, focusing on understanding the risks posed by the frontier technology and how national and international frameworks could be supported. Sam Altman, CEO and the public face of the startup OpenAI, backed by Microsoft Corp, said during a visit to Taipei that although he was not that worried about government over-regulation, it could happen. "I also worry about under-regulation. People in our industry bash regulation a lot. We've been calling for regulation, but only of the most powerful systems," he said. "Models that are like 10,000 times the power of GPT4, models that are like as s...

Pixel 8 camera specs leak Google Pixel phones have always focused on great camera specs and the upcoming Pixel 8 series leak reveals manual camera controls, and new features with AI integration. The leaked video posted on 91Mobiles by reliable leaker Kamila Wojciechowska, provides exclusive details like the new camera features coming to Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, with Night Sight, Astrophotography, and Super Res Zoom. Another notable feature added to the camera specs is “Video Boost,” which will use AI to create a “smoother view” as well as bring Night Sight’s effects to video. The "Audio Eraser" will accompany the new features list, removing any unwanted sounds in videos like city noise. The most wild and exciting feature of the upcoming series is the use of AI in videos to change people's faces in different shots to create an ideal version. This time Google is also giving full manual controls on the Pixel 8 called “Pro Controls” which are “modeled after DSLR cont...

India's Lava looks to corner a third of feature phone market Homegrown Indian mobile phone firm Lava will launch 4G feature phones as it aims to corner a third of the market share for the entry-level devices within a year, while also gradually boosting its budget smartphones, a top executive said. Since it was set up in 2009, Lava has become popular for the budget phones, which have a keypad but no high-end features. The company will launch 4G feature phones in the effort to take its market share in the segment to 35% within a year, up from 26% now, said Sunil Raina, the president and business head of Lava International. The firm wants to "come to a very dominant position" in this segment, he told Reuters in an interview. Research firm Counterpoint estimates that Lava has a share of less than 1% in the world's second-biggest smartphone market, with 650 million such devices. Despite Indians' growing use of smartphones, Counterpoint estimates roughly 290 million o...

'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars About a year ago, the US security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren't the norm for cybercriminals. Native English-speaking hackers would call up a target company’s information technology helpdesk posing as an employee, and seek login details by pretending to have lost theirs. They had all the employee information needed to sound convincing. And once they got access, they’d quickly find their way into the company's most sensitive repositories to steal that data for extortion. Ransomware attacks are not new, but this group was extraordinarily skilled at social engineering and bypassing multi-factor authentication, said Wendi Whitmore, senior vice president for the security firm Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence team, which has responded to several intrusions tied to the group. "They are much more sophistic...

Apple's flagship Shanghai store buzzes as iPhone 15 goes on sale Over a hundred customers queued inside Apple's flagship store in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Friday, waiting to pick up their iPhone 15 orders on the first day of in-store availability. How Apple's latest iPhone sells in China is under close scrutiny by fans and market watchers alike, after widening curbs on iPhone use by government staff and the release of a high-end rival from domestic manufacturer Huawei sparked concern about demand for the device in its third-largest market. But the strength of pre-orders in the world's second-largest economy, which began last Friday, has eased worries, with delivery times pushed into November and the premium iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max selling out in just one minute on Alibaba's Tmall e-commerce site. Local media reported the queue at the store on Shanghai's East Nanjing road shopping belt started forming at 5 a.m. (1000 GMT). Among...

YouTube launches video editing app YouTube Create YouTube has announced the launch of its new app called YouTube Create for creators to edit videos right on their phones. In a move to give competition to TikTok, YouTube debuts its first video editing app YouTube Create which supports editing of YouTube Shorts and general videos. The app has a variety of features including precision editing and trimming, automatic captioning, voiceover capabilities and access to a library of filters, effects, transitions and royalty-free music with beat-matching technology. The idea is to not let creators rely on complex editing software or tools for their YouTube videos. ✨ introducing YouTube Create a new easy-to-use editing app that helps you make high-quality vids & can publish to YouTube 🎬 now in *beta* in 8 countries on Android we want your feedback 📣 download in Play Store: https://t.co/eV3LZP8N2b more info: https://t.co/HnbJhl8oR7 pic.twitter.com/1tCyKAYvtu — TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) Se...

China's AI 'war of a hundred models' heads for a shakeout China's craze over generative artificial intelligence has triggered a flurry of product announcements from startups and tech giants on an almost daily basis, but investors are warning a shakeout is imminent as cost and profit pressures grow. The buzz in China, first ignited by the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT almost a year ago, has given rise to what a senior Tencent  executive described this month as "war of a hundred models", as it and rivals from Baidu to Alibaba to Huawei promote their offerings. China now has at least 130 large language models (LLMs), accounting for 40% of the global total and just behind the United States' 50% share, according to brokerage CLSA. Additionally, companies have also announced dozens of "industry-specific LLMs" that link to their core model. However, investors and analysts say that most were yet to find viable business models, were too similar to eac...

John Grisham, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights A trade group for US authors has sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on behalf of prominent writers including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picoult and "Game of Thrones" novelist George R.R. Martin, accusing the company of unlawfully training its popular artificial-intelligence based chatbot ChatGPT on their work. The proposed class-action lawsuit filed late on Tuesday by the Authors Guild joins several others from writers, source-code owners and visual artists against generative AI providers. In addition to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, similar lawsuits are pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI over the data used to train their AI systems. Other authors involved in the latest lawsuit include "The Lincoln Lawyer" writer Michael Connelly and lawyer-novelists David Baldacci and Scott Turow. OpenAI and other AI defendants have said their use of training data scraped from the...

Amazon plays catch-up with Alexa generative AI, shows off new, refreshed hardware Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday unveiled a slate of new and refreshed devices and updated its Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence to attract users to the unprofitable product as competition grows from chatbots like Google's Bard. Alexa will converse more naturally, losing its robotic tone of nearly a decade, and answer questions like the start time for football games and recipe ideas. It will also be able to compose and recite poems, Amazon showed at the company's annual product launch in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon introduced Alexa in 2014, but has not found a consistent means to make it profitable, instead driving shoppers toward the company's website for more purchases. Typically accessed through speakers or enabled televisions, the service provides spoken answers to user queries, like the local weather, and can serve as a hub to control home appliances. The Seattle-...

OpenAI unveils Dall-E 3, latest version of its text-to-image tool OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled Dall-E 3, the latest version of its text-to-image tool that uses its wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to help fill in prompts. Dall-E 3 will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers in October via the API, the company said. Users can type in a request for an image and tweak the prompt through conversations with ChatGPT. "DALL-E 3 can translate nuanced requests into extremely detailed and accurate images," the company said in a statement. OpenAI said the latest version of the tool will have more safeguards such as limiting its ability to generate violent, adult, or hateful content. The tool also has mitigations to decline requests that ask for images of a public figure by name, or those that ask for images in the style of a living artist. OpenAI said creators could opt out of using some or all of their work used to train future text-to-image tools. OpenAI's race t...

TikTok introduces new tools to label AI generated content TikTok introduces new tools for content creators to differentiate the content generated with the help of Artificial intelligence. Considering the increasing use of AI in content creation and the potential of it being misleading or confusing, TikTok has launched new tools. Using these tools, content creators are required to label AI-generated content that contains realistic images, audio or video, images, videos or audio that utilise AI. Over the coming days, TikTok will be releasing tutorials and other resources to teach them how to use these tools. Read More UK urges Meta not to roll out end-to-end encryption on Messenger and Instagram Labelling AI-generated content is one of the ways to ensure transparency and responsible content creation practices. TikTok is also working on ways to automatically label AI-generated content.

Musk's Neuralink to start human trial of brain implant for paralysis patients Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients. Those with paralysis due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may qualify for the study, it said, but did not reveal how many participants would be enrolled in the trial, which will take about six years to complete. The study will use a robot to surgically place a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant in a region of the brain that controls the intention to move, Neuralink said, adding that its initial goal is to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone. The company, which had earlier hoped to receive approval to implant its device in 10 patients, was negotiating a lower number of patients with the US Foo...